Mother continues to ask about/refer to Glen. She sometimes calls Dennis "Glen". Besides carrying around playing cards which belonged to Glen, she sometimes carries around one of his harmonicas.
Mother no longer asks to "go home". I was feeling triumphant about this, thinking we could take credit for eliminating this Alzheimers symptom. My theory was that this symptom is not a symptom of Alzheimers cognitive disruption, but a normal, natural problem solving response of a person who feels neglected. So I asked Dennis if he had heard Mother ask to "go home" recently. He said she asked to go home the other evening while he was watching baseball. She wanted to show him something in another room. He told her to wait until the end of the inning. That's when she wanted to go home.
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